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Instead, I discovered in a more profound way the human body as transitory and fragile and, by contrast, the soul as enduring.†
Chpt 14 *
WHAT I BELIEVE, WHAT I VALUE MOST, is transitoriness.†
Chpt 47

transitoriness = shortness
But is not transitoriness—the perishableness of life—something very sad?†
Chpt 47
Transitoriness creates time—and "time is the essence.†
Chpt 47
Without transitoriness, without beginning or end, birth or death, there is no time, either.†
Chpt 47
One of the most important characteristics distinguishing man from all other forms of nature is his knowledge of transitoriness, of beginning and end, and therefore of the gift of time.†
Chpt 47
In man, transitory life attains its peak of animation, of soul power, so to speak.†
Chpt 47
But man's soul is most awake in his knowledge of the inter-changeability of the terms "existence" and "transitoriness.†
Chpt 47

transitoriness = shortness

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